TDTAT
Joined: 11 Mar 2006
Posts: 57203
Location: Gambleville
1186904 NLN Dollars
Tournament Dollars
 |  Posted:14.08.2009, 09:27 Friday Quotes | Food For Weekend Thought | Short Quotes |   |
Friday Quotes | Food For Weekend Thought | Short Quotes
FRIDAY'S QUOTATIONS - "Food For Weekend Thought" 2009-08-14 Assembled by R. VARGA
FRIDAY’S QUOTATIONS
"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."
- Stephen R. Covey
"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians."
- Warren Buffett
"The more I observed Washington, the more frequently I visited it, and the more people I interviewed there, the more I understood how prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid it out as a city that goes around in circles."
- John Mason Brown
"Before uttering something about another person, ask yourself three questions: Is it true? Is it fair? Is it necessary?"
- Unknown
"Tell me with whom thou art found, and I will tell thee who thou art."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
- Thomas Carlyle
"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led."
- Warren Bennis
"A harsh word, like a stone let go, cannot be recalled."
- American Proverb
"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."
- Eric Hoffer
"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."
- Milton Berle
"A stumble may prevent a fall."
- Thomas Fuller
"A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks."
- Oscar Wilde
"All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it."
- Helen Keller
"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students."
- John Ciardi
"Tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope."
- Romans 3:3-4
"Anything that changes your values changes your behavior."
- George Sheehan
"Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it."
- Lou Holtz
_________________________________________
_________________
  
Last edited by TDTAT on 14.08.2009, 09:58; edited 1 time in total
|
|
for sharing these quotes
